Friday, April 23, 2010

I just stumbled across this and I ABSOLUTELY LOVEEEEE it, you guys have to watch! it's a short film called "Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not)"

Some of you will recognize the opening song--it's "Raksit Leila" by the Lebanese band Mashrou3 Leila which reminds me of the opening of the second "Flying Kebab" episode (see below) also the "This is Yasmine...Yasmine likes..." bit is inspired by Amelie (see clip below). The part after where we see the progression of Yasmine and Tarek's relationship (good to bad times) I recognized as from the short film with Natalie Portman in the movie "Paris, je t'aime" undoubtedly the inspiration for this movie's title (see below)

Enjoy!

Info:

Beirut, I Love You (I Love You Not), a Beirut-ish tribute to Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie Poulain, is a short film by “An Orange Dog Productions” about (fleeting) love & the little pleasures in life, all set and in relation with the very inspiring city of Beirut.

The film has already been selected in: – The Swansea Bay Film Festival – UK (2010) – The International Youth Film Festival – UK (2010) – The International Film Festival of Egypt (2010) – The Lebanese Film Festival of Montreal, Canada (2010) – The Creative Commons Salon in Amman, Jordan (2009)

BabaGannouj et La Zaytouni Welcome You to their Blog!!

After meeting at University and becoming very close friends, BabaGannouj (homme) and La Zaytouni (femme) soon realized that what they shared in common was not just that they were Lebanese but that they were also very opinionated--and apparently had a lot of time on their hands. After sending hundreds of emails back and forth to each other on interesting articles, blog posts, sites, etc., they decided that other people out there might be interested too.

Thus, the birth of this blog.

We plan to keep it updated, interesting, original, sexy (just felt like throwing that in there)--focusing on Lebanon, the Middle East, and anything else we find hilarious/note worthy.